a. Born a twin or twins; born at the same birth, as two, or one of two. Usually fig.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., IV. i. 251. Let vs our Liues, our Soules,… our Sinnes, lay on the King:… O hard Condition, Twin-borne with Greatnesse.
1610. Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, 122. Him that misliked the fellowship of his owne twin-borne brother.
c. 1647. Milton, Sonnet, xii. 6. As when those Hinds … Raild at Latona’s twin-born progenie.
1753. Hanway, Trav. (1762), I. III. xxx. 134. Ingratitude … is twin-born with pride.
1781. Cowper, Expost., 634. Wisdom and Goodness are twin-born.
1855. Bailey, Mystic, etc. (ed. 2), 103. Twin-born passions.
